7.2 Registration

The Trade Union Act 2048 (1992)'s machinery: (i) the application (the union's constitution, the office bearers, the members' list); (ii) the minimum-membership requirement (the enterprise union's threshold — the registrable base); (iii) the registrar's examination (the constitution's compliance; the lawful-objects' test; the duplication's check); (iv) the certificate's issue — the registration's effect: the legal personality (the body corporate's faces); the statutory rights' acquisition (the bargaining route; the dispute machinery's access); (v) the refusal- and-appeal (the registrar's refusal's reasons; the appeal's route); (vi) the cancellation's discipline (the grounds: the default, the illegality — with the members' protections). The registration's meaning: not the permission to exist (the association's freedom) but the status's conferment (the statutory rights' vehicle).